All is set for the finals of the 2025 Olumide Oyedeji Intercollegiate 3×3 Basketball Championship, scheduled for June 28–29 at the Dolphins Basketball Court, Onipetesi, Lagos with eighteen teams across the six geo-political zones competing for honours.
Originally slated for the National Stadium in Lagos, the tournament was relocated to Dolphins Court due to weather conditions.
After weeks of zonal qualifiers involving over 100 institutions across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones, Ahmadu Bello University and Bayero University, Kano qualified from the North West.
The North Central will be represented by Federal University of Technology, Minna; Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai; and College of Education, Minna. Representing the North East are College for Legal Studies, Yola; Federal College of Education, Yola; and American University of Nigeria, Yola.
Obafemi Awolowo University, Lead City University, and Ladoke Akintola University of Technology from the South West zone.
Caritas University, Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, and University of Nigeria, Nsukka will represent the South East zone. They will be joined by South South representatives: University of Benin, Ambrose Alli University, and Dennis Osadebay University.
According to Olumide Oyedeji,
Founder of the Intercollegiate 3×3 Basketball Championship and board member of the Nigeria Basketball Federation assured of the readiness to stage the best of 3×3 basketball in Nigeria.
For him, beyond basketball it is high time that Nigeria grew the 3×3 basketball culture and be part of the global revolution.